Marli Davis CV
Education
Ontario College of Art and Design University, BFA: Drawing and Painting: 2016-2021
Florence Off-Campus Studies Program, OCAD U Florence Campus: 2019
FJR Secondary School and Regional Arts Program: Visual Arts: 2012-2016
Solo Exhibitions
‘METAMORPHOSE’ - Quest Gallery & RBC, Solo Show & AIR, Midland, ON, 2022
‘Familiar Ghosts – Archiving Genetic Domesticity’, Xpace, Solo Show, Toronto, ON, 2021
Group Exhibitions
‘Darwin's Paradox : A Decade of Bio-Art’ - SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY, 2022
‘Wunderkammer’- Ignite Gallery, Toronto, ON, 2022
‘Garden Variety vol. IV’- Outdoor Group Show, Toronto, ON, 2022
‘Are We Away?’ - Artscape Gibraltar Point, Collective Show, Toronto ON, 2022
‘Ghost Ecologies : Hidden Kinships’ - SVA, Residency & Group Show, New York, NY, 2022
‘The Next International Exhibition’, Li Tang Gallery, Virtual Exhibition, Toronto, ON, 2022
‘Recast: turning the symbolic into concrete’, CGAC, virtual exhibition, Toronto, 2021
VRTO Exhibition Space - representing OCAD University, virtual, Toronto, 2021
‘Phenomenon’, The Holy Art Gallery, juried online exhibition, London, UK, 2021
AGO Portraits of Resilience, online exhibition, juried open call, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2021
Grad-Ex 106, OCAD U, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2021
‘Warm Bodies - Ghostly Specimens - Stoic Machines’, V.R. thesis exhibition, Toronto ON, 2021
‘Scusa’, Off-Campus Florence Show, Florence, Fl, Italy, 2019
Festival of the Body, OCAD U, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2018
Festival of the Body, OCAD U, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2017
Lucid Dream Collective, ‘Artists in Wonderland’, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2017
Juried Celebration of First Year, OCAD U, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2016
Residencies
Bio Art Residency – School of Visual Arts – New York: 2022
Quest Gallery & RBC– AIR & Solo Show in the main gallery: 2021
Xpace – Summer Residency & Solo Show in the project space: 2021
Awards & Grants
A.B.F.M. Magazine™ Art Studio Prize: 2021
Patricia Joy Alpert Memorial Award: 2021
Elliot Joel Grant: 2021
OCAD U (TSA) Grant Fund: 2020-2021
Kendra Jaal McCleskey Memorial Scholarship: 2019-2020
Aboveground Art Supplies Scholarship: 2019-2020
Ada Slaight Grant: 2019
Project 31 Drawing & Painting Entrance Scholarship: 2016-2017
Earla Alexander Scholarship: 2016-2017
Publications
COLLAGE Exhibition Catalogue - Aird Gallery - Designer & Essayist: 2022
DRAWING Exhibition Catalogue - Aird Gallery - Designer & Essayist: 2022
STILL LIFE Exhibition Catalogue - Aird Gallery - Juror, Designer & Essayist: 2022
FLORALS Exhibition Catalogue - Aird Gallery - Designer & Essayist: 2021
Volvox Vault - Sweet Fruit Collective - Feature: 2021
Art-Connect Artists to Watch 2021 - Feature, Interview: 2021
A.B.F.M. Magazine™ - Feature, Art Award Recipient: 2021
Art-Connect - Feature, Artist Spotlight: 2021
She Does the City - Feature, Interview: 2021
OCAD U Library - Feature, Art Review: 2020
Talks
OCAD University, DRPT Critique Club - Guest Presenter & Critic: 2022
OCAD University, Life Studies - Guest Lecturer: 2022
Artists in Conversation - OCAD U, Thesis Forum Discussion - Presenter: 2021
Asia Global Cultural Studies Forum (AGCSF) - Presenter: 2021
Professional Affiliations
OCAD U, DRPT - Class Assistant & Curatorial Project Assistant: 2021
UFT/Hart House/Art Museum -TPZ Artists’ Assistant: 2021
John B. Aird Gallery - Curatorial/Design Intern: 2021
IATSE 873 - Scenic Department Permit: 2020-21
OCAD U Florence Campus - Student Studio Technician: 2019
OCAD U Faculty of Art - Student Monitor: 2018-2019
Michele White - Studio Assistant: 2018
Onsite Gallery - Exhibition Monitor: 2018
Power Plant - Volunteer Gallery Monitor: 2018
Arts Express, Paint Cabin, Paint & Pixels - Art Teacher: 2016-2018